Embassy of Ukraine, Bern

The Ukrainian Embassy in Bern is the diplomatic mission of Ukraine to the Swiss Confederation and the Principality of Liechtenstein. Since 2022, Iryna Venediktova has been the ambassador.[1]

Embassy of Ukraine in Bern
LocationBern, Switzerland
AddressFeldeggweg 5, 3005 Bern, Switzerland
Coordinates46°56′38″N 7°26′50″E
Opened1993
AmbassadorIryna Venediktova
Websiteswitzerland.mfa.gov.ua

Ambassadors
Number Date Name Image Notes
1 1918 Yuri Hasenko Ukrainian diplomat, political leader, and engineer. He was sent to Bern in 1917 on behalf of the Ukrainian People's Republic with the goal of spreading information about Ukraine. He founded a Ukrainian-Swiss commercial institution and a foreign institution of the Ukrainian People's Republic in Switzerland, and carried out diplomatic duties in Switzerland as a representative of Ukraine.
2 1918–1919 Yevmen Lukasevych Ukrainian diplomat, journalist, doctor, publisher, and activist; Minister of Health of the Ukrainian People's Republic. From 1918, he was an adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the UPR. He was sent to Bern to attempt to establish formal diplomatic ties between the Ukrainian People's Republic and Switzerland. He aided in the publishing of French-language literature about Ukraine in Bern and Lausanne.[2]
3 1919–1923 Mykola Vasyl'ko Ukrainian and Romanian diplomat. He was the diplomatic representative of the West Ukrainian People's Republic in Austria from 1919 to 1920, and later the ambassador of the Ukrainian People's Republic to Germany and Switzerland.[3]
4 1923–1926 Zenon Kurbas General consul of the Ukrainian People's Republic to Switzerland.
5 1992–1993 Andriy Ozadovs'ky Ukrainian diplomat.
6 1993–1997 Oleksandr Slipchenko Ukrainian diplomat and journalist.
7 1998–2000 Nina Koval's'ka Ukrainian diplomat and first female Ukrainian ambassador to Switzerland.
8 2000–2003 Yevhen Bersheda Ukrainian diplomat and acting director of the Verkhovna Rada Institute of Legislation.
9 2003–2004 Suzanna Stanik Ukrainian lawyer and a former judge on the Constitutional Court of Ukraine.
10 2004–2008 Ostap Yukhymovych Ukrainian diplomat.
11 2008–2014 Ihor Dir Ukrainian diplomat.
12 2014–2018 Ostap Yukhymovych Ukrainian diplomat.
13 2018–2022 Artem Rybchenko Ukrainian diplomat. The current ambassador of Ukraine to the Swiss Confederation and the Principality of Liechtenstein.
13 2022 Iryna Venediktova Ukrainian diplomat. The current ambassador of Ukraine to the Swiss Confederation and the Principality of Liechtenstein.

See also

References
  1. "Dr. Rybchenko Artem". The Embassy of Ukraine in the Swiss Confederation. Archived from the original on 14 August 2021. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  2. Я. В. Ганіткевич, О. М. Ціборовський. "Лукасевич Євмен Кирилович". Енциклопедія сучасної України (in Ukrainian).
  3. А. І. Жуковський. "Василько Микола Миколайович". Енциклопедія Сучасної України (in Ukrainian).
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